IDG Contributor Network

The Data Economy

By Paul Barth

Opinions expressed by ICN authors are their own.

Opinion

What is your time to answer?

Consolidation of data management and analytics is advancing speed and accuracy of every business decision.

Opinion

Migrating data to the cloud: back to the future?

With real insights on the readiness of your data to move to the cloud, and a cloud-native catalog ready to manage it, you can accelerate migration with both confidence and control.

Opinion

Data, metadata and the AI horizon

The need to interact more as an orchestra than a factory.

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Data agility or scale: a false choice?

A successful marketplace should be able to provide both agility and scale.

Opinion

Data and the human factor: are you shackling your best and brightest?

It’s important to recognize the power of enabling talented people to do their jobs.

Opinion

Whose fingerprints are all over your customer data?

When compared to data warehousing, the data lake paradigm is incredibly appealing. But until you start working with the data, you don’t know what you don’t know. And that can be fatal.

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Chief data officers are moving from defense to offense

For the first time in seven years, all 35 U.S. banks passed the Fed’s Comprehensive Capital Analysis Review (CCAR). In the past, many banks struggled with the regulation – not because of how they managed capital, but with proving the...

Opinion

Trailblazers: Notes from the new data frontier

Trailblazers have to overcome obstacles – both old and new – as they navigate new terrain. And their reward for choosing to pioneer, rather than follow, gives them a first-mover advantage.

Opinion

The new paradigm for big data governance

A new paradigm has emerged that brings data governance to big data. Instead of heavy-handed restrictions on data usage and documentation, big data governance is agile, collaborative and efficient. It engages, not separates, analysts...